“Everything comes back at you one day.”
A black man enrolls at Ole Miss in 1962 and sparks riots on the night a man shoots his unfaithful wife in a town not far away. A generation later a local history teacher tries to uncover his father’s roles in these events, all while destroying his own marriage through infidelity. History is context: opinionated and non-logical. Yarbrough’s skill lies in his smoothness. He effortlessly holds this tangled skein up to the light to show the layers. The protagonist fails to see the loopings of time, the repetitions, the sins of the fathers visited, but the author makes them clear.
